Day: July 27, 2014

The Sunday morning sidewalk

A stroll down the sidewalk.. no sound of church bells. They are all closed. No frying chicken. Families don’t eat Sunday dinner anymore. But there’s news. and lots of it, for better or worse, presented for your HORROR REPORT approval from sea to boiling sea:

Weather alert: Heads up.. strong, severe storms, hail, and tornadoes set for large part of United States today..


Hamas announces a 24-hour truce with Israel.. the earlier ceasefire ended with Israel bombarding parts of Gaza..


There is irony here.. there is some bad news here.. Ebola has KILLED the senior doctor treating Ebola patients in Liberia.. He was the most high-profile doctor in the situation.. And now an American doctor is infected with the deadly disease..

Pope renews attack on Mafia..


I mentioned in my news bits yesterday that 3D printed body parts and organs were going to change medicine for the best.. Get this: Here is the story of the 6-year-old who received a prosthetic arm.. And now he can climb trees..

Fossil suggests that most dinosaurs sported feathers..

New study: Earth is on the verge of the 6th mass extinction..

New research finds that dogs do feel jealous .. I could have told you that.. each day when Ayden gets home from day care, it turns into a match to see who will get more attention, him or Mutley the Dog.

Thumbs away!! Megan Fox wants to personally hunt down and destroy Bigfoot..

Megan Fox says girl power was cut from NINJA TURTLES.. Could this be another post-movie release fight already setting up with Michael Bay??


WONDER WOMAN revealed at Comic Con.. Josh Brolin announced as Marvel Villian THANOS..

ANT MAN characters revealed..

LOW BUDGET HORROR WEEKEND

I look back now to my late teenager years, back when I joined with my friends for all night sessions of sitting in a dark room to watch horror flicks, some good and most bad, laughing until the sun came up. If only then we had NETFLIX.. The amazing world we live in now is filled with the aroma of good films and funk. We can choose what we want.. on demand. Right now..

This weekend was just that type of weekend.. a low budget horror extravaganza. When my son Ayden went to sleep, of course..

In the past, I found some gems on Netflix worth watching again. Movies such as STITCHES, HAUNT, HAUNTER, and some others..

It was a ‘low budget horror weekend’ in my house..


I watched the movie PONTYPOOL last night for the first time in my life.. It was somewhat bizarre.. somewhat dull.. somewhat comical.. It’s a psychological horror about a disease infecting the town of Pontypool. The disease is the English language.. Most of the movie is from the basement of a church where a radio host Grant Mazzy narrates the end of his world.. Without giving away too much–as you may want to see it–the movie rated about a 3 out of 5 stars for me. It was slow, somewhat unnerving.. but for the most part it was finely made with the low budget that existed for it.. But there are some critical problems with it–as pointed out by the others who watched the movie with me and hated it. Maybe that’s why it ended up only making $1,500 during its opening night in Canada..


Maybe the movie HOUSE OF THE DEVIL is more your cup of tea.. it is also slow and unnerving, but the build up suspense scenes are much more intense and well done. The film is based on the theory that Satanic ritual abuse was real in the 1980s. In this movie, a college student takes a job to ‘babysit’ .. she finds out there’s no baby and there won’t be much sitting either. What I found most well done about this movie was that, despite being made in 2009, the movie had an 80s feel. It felt like we were watching something from that decade.. the filmmakers, despite a low budget, still were able to find vintage Coke cups and used lighting effectively to make your mind think you were watching something filmed 30 years ago.. Perhaps the most frightening character for several reasons in HOUSE OF THE DEAD was the very tall Tom Noonan.

TOP NEWS JULY 27 2014


LOVE FOR ‘LUCY’

SCARLETT JOHANSSON BEATS DWAYNE JOHNSON’S ‘HERCULES’
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BUT REGARDLESS OF $44 MIL FOR LUCY AND $29 MIL FOR HERCULES, THE BOX OFFICE CONTINUES TO HAVE A DOWN YEAR. THIS WEEKEND’S TOTALS WERE 17% NEGATIVE WHEN COMPARED TO 2013. AND FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 2001, DOMESTIC SUMMER GROSSES ARE 20% DOWN FROM MAY THROUGH AUGUST..

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LOW BUDGET HORROR WEEKEND!

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THE SUNDAY MORNING SIDEWALK

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